Washington, D.C.

Mireille Twayigira, who escaped the Rwandan genocide at the age of three and lost most of her family to sickness while fleeing, made a compelling case for expanding refugee educational services during a Feb. 25 talk at Georgetown University.

"The patience of the people of God is exhausted with the episcopal and clerical culture that puts itself first," said Georgetown University's John Carr after a Leadership Roundtable meeting on the clergy sex abuse crisis.

When white supremacist groups announced plans to hold a demonstration in Washington, D.C., to mark the one-year anniversary of the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va., many feared a repeat of the violence in 2017.